Matthias Weber
@itstheglue.bsky.social
Strategic Designer, Hamburg DE, f/k/a @checkdisout on twitter * founder of http://itstheglue.com, http://www.040x040.com * Co-Founder of http://watchlaterclub.com
10 years of #040x040. Johan Salo, UX researcher, AI designer, arm wrestler, and freshly minted personal trainer on creativity between free play and fixed rules. 040x040.com/040x040-10th... #040x040 #10yearsof040x040 #AI #Creativity #Design
040x040 10th anniversary Interview #6: Johan Salo
10 years after the first 040x040, Johan Salo – UX researcher, AI designer, and arm-wrestling physical trainer – on why the ugliest prototype beats the perfect one, and what happens when creativity liv...
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Checkdisout!
Bundesministerium für Verkehr@bmv-bund.bsky.social · 2w agoDu teilst dein Fahrzeug oder willst es kurzfristig verleihen? Über die App kannst du den Fahrzeugschein ganz bequem teilen. Das funktioniert nicht nur für dein Auto, sondern auch für dein Moped oder Wohnmobil. Und: Die #iKfzApp zeigt dir an, wann der nächste TÜV ansteht!
Wir können den Klimawandel mittlerweile in Echtzeit beobachten. Gleichzeitig schafft die Bundesregierung das wirksamste deutsche Klimagesetz ab. Dabei zeigt eine Studie: Die Bevölkerung will Klimaschutz! volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/kl...
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Im Pazifik entwickelt sich gerade ein El Niño, wie ihn die Messgeschichte noch nie gesehen hat. In derselben Woche schafft die Bundesregierung das wirksamste deutsche Klimagesetz ab – weil sie glaubt,...
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Every bookstore takes inventory. Cities should too – of capabilities, knowledge, networks, and potential, not just physical infrastructure. What's there? What's missing? What's lying around unused? And what happens when hidden capabilities meet the right problems? itstheglue.com/glue-drops-m...
Glue Drops – Matching the City
Matthias Weber on Matching the City: How urban inventory surfaces cities' hidden capabilities, matches them with concrete challenges, and sparks experiments – so creativity becomes a capacity, not a c...
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What if the city itself becomes the canvas? For the next #040x040 anniversary interview, I spoke with Malmö-based artist Jeanette Wester about spatial art, public space, technology, and Hamburg–Malmö exchange. 040x040.com/040x040-10th... #040x040 #Malmö #Hamburg #PublicArt
#040x040 explores urban #creativity & #innovation. Looking forward to a September session with the great folks from Gröninger Hof eG / Björge Köhler – they're turning a former parking garage into a #cooperative #housing project. Thread below for background + tickets 👇 vimeo.com/1037483601
Mach beim Gröninger Hof mit!
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10 years of #040x040, interview #4: Yasemin Arhan Modéer joined our first edition in 2015. She's founder & CEO of Altitude Meetings – on democracy, climate, and the European Spallation Source in Lund. "Gather to solve"→ 040x040.com/040x040-10th... #040x040 #Malmö #Hamburg #RemixingPeopleSince2015
040x040 10th anniversary Interview #4: Yasemin Arhan Modéer
10 years after the first 040x040, Yasemin Arhan Modéer (CEO Altitude Meetings) discusses the ROI of green transitions, why AI threatens creativity, and a new Hamburg-Lund innovation corridor.
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"Creativity means exploring without knowing the outcome." 10 years of #040x040: interview #3: Harald Stjerna, Cultural Liaison for Malmö Stad, on his journey with us and why nightlife is civic infrastructure – not just a place that sells drinks. 040x040.com/040x040-10th... #RemixingPeopleSince2015
040x040 10th anniversary Interview #3: Harald Stjerna
From fintech to nightlife infrastructure: Harald Stjerna (City of Malmö) looks back at his 040x040 journey, how a 2018 trip to Hamburg reshaped his view of creative ecosystems, and why sustaining nigh...
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This is happening! A new round of #040x040 creative cities exchange between #Hamburg and #Malmö this september. Think: bike-based city exploration, intimate conversations, and a picnic style bring something to the table-spirit: questions, ideas, curiosity, humour. 040x040.com/your-ticket-...
The 040x040 Picnic: Hamburg, September 3–4, 2026.
A cross-cultural picnic for urban innovation
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I cyber-sat down with Rebecka Nilsson for our 2nd instalment in the #10yearsof040x040 interview series. Closer by train, further apart in spirit. On creativity, Media Evolution & the Fehmarnbelt gap. 040x040.com/040x040-10th... #RemixingPeopleSince2015 #SpaceForCreativity #UrbanInnovation
040x040 10th anniversary Interview #2: Rebecka Nilsson
040x040 10th anniversary series: Rebecka Nilsson, from student in 2015 to Project Manager at Media Evolution. Why the creative/business divide hasn't changed, why the pandemic widened the Hamburg–Malm...
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#040x040 started as a crazy idea on a terrace in Malmö. Two underdog cities sharing the same dialing code on mutual learning journeys for creatives. 10 years later: a vibrant community of creators and curious minds. We kick off our interview series with Andreas Hedin. 040x040.com/040x040-10th...
040x040 10th anniversary Interview #1: Andreas Hedin
Part of the 040x040 10th anniversary interview series: Andreas Hedin explores the journey from 2015 to 2026. Discover why "finding a voice" matters in the AI era, why corporate talks are dead, and how...
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From Kanban to Design Thinking: How industrial logic makes creative work manageable—and why we need safe spaces for human creativity. itstheglue.com/over-process... #CreativeLeadership #Creativity #CreativeIndustries #FutureOfWork #ProductivityCulture #Agile #AI #GenerativeAI
Over-Processualization. The First Shot at Creativity.
Hey friend, we live in a work environment that’s obsessed with methods and processes. Everything must be controllable, systematized, and perfectly timed. And, of course, produce concrete results. But...
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APuZ@apuz.bsky.social · 5mo agoDie neue APuZ #Zivilgesellschaft ist da: mit Texten von @swenhutter.bsky.social und @janapriemer.bsky.social, Tobias Montag, Siri Hummel, @nilskumkar.bsky.social, Wolfgang Schroeder und @viviankube.bsky.social - ab sofort bei @bpb.de bestellbar und morgen im "Parlament". www.bpb.de/shop/zeitsch...
Human creativity is messy, tangled, and it doesn't happen in a vacuum. It happens between people – in friction, argument, contradiction. And that deeply human experience is currently being systematically optimized away. itstheglue.com/three-shots-... #creativity #DesignThinking #CreativeLeadership
Three shots fired at creativity
Human creativity is messy, tangled, and it doesn't happen in a vacuum. It happens between people – in friction, argument, contradiction. And that deeply human experience is currently being systematica...
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Zum gegenwärtigen Zeitpunkt ist die Kommission der Auffassung, dass TikTok das grundlegende Design seines Dienstes ändern muss. Beispielsweise durch die Deaktivierung wichtiger Suchtfunktionen wie „unendliches Scrollen“ im Laufe der Zeit [...]
digitalrechte@digitalrechte.bsky.social · 6mo agoDie EU-Kommission stellt vorläufig fest, dass das suchterzeugende Design von TikTok gegen den DSA verstößt. Das war lange überfällig und wir sind auf die kommenden Schritte gespannt: ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
I’m focused on exchange, collaboration, and cross-border curiosity: a practice that keeps institutional self-satisfaction from becoming default. No masterplan. Just a tiny experiment for 2026 itstheglue.com/think-big-st... h/t @undermanager.bsky.social @neuranne.bsky.social @cityofsound.bsky.social
Think big, start tiny
I’m focused on exchange, collaboration, and cross-border curiosity: a simple practice that keeps institutionalized self-satisfaction from becoming the default. No masterplan. Just a tiny experiment f...
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31 December 1943 | It is the only 'end of the year’ in the history of #Auschwitz when the number of prisoners in the entire system is known: 85,298: 55,785 men & 29,513 women. Listen to our podcast on researching the number of victims: https://youtu.be/E_OZetNrMkw
